Catalogue entry

With the sketchbook inverted is a view of Sir Walter Scott’s Abbotsford from the south-west. Turner made views of the houses from every point of the compass (folios 15 verso–18; D25955–D25960, D26046–D26048; CCLXVII 15a–18, 16–70). Some of these may have been made on 5 August 1831 when Robert Cadell reported in his diary: ‘Mr Turner and I stood out on one of the terraces to try to catch the best view of Abbotsford’.1

At the left of the page is a slight continuation from folio 68 (D26048; CCLXVII 70). It is unclear what the scribbles in the foreground represent.

See folio 16 verso (D25957; CCLXVII 16a) for further information on Turner’s sketches of Abbotsford.